DISTRICT 6690 ROTARY FOUNDATION COMMITTEE

The district foundation committee is responsible for promoting all aspects of charitable giving to the Rotary Foundation. These include the permanent fund; major donors; the annual fund and polio eradication.

The chairs of the committees responsible for the following programs, sponsored through the Rotary Foundation, are ex-officio members of the district foundation committee: District and Global Grants committees, Scholarship committee, and PolioPlus  committee.

The district foundation committee is appointed by the district governor. The chair is appointed for a three-year period.

The purpose of the district foundation committee is to:

• Promote charitable giving to the Rotary Foundation;
• Develop and implement creative and innovative programs to increase the annual per capita contribution in the district to the Rotary Foundation;
• Increase awareness of, and participation in the final efforts to “End Polio Now”;
• Encourage participation in the Bequest Society of the Rotary Foundation;
• Solicit new major donors;
• Promote relations with alumni of the various Foundation programs.